As protests against the Trump administration escalated across the country in early 2017, The Guardian began to think about how it could best serve this growing community often self-dubbed as “The…
Via Andy Bull

How do you teach journalism and communication students digital skills? A few top J-schools have found that the most successful approach is to immerse them in multimedia storytelling early in their academic careers with a digital journalism gateway boot camp. Here are their tips for starting your own gateway course.

In June, MTV News announced it was shifting resources from long-form journalism to video, shedding around a dozen staffers in the process. Lately, whether it’s MTV, Vocativ or Time Inc., it seems like pivoting to video at media companies has become synonymous with layoffs.There’s a sense of dread that the move into video is fundamentally different from the advent of digital and that writing jobs may disappear permanently. The shift to video is a convenient scapegoat.

“An investigative report on the privatization of Greece’s islands and beaches? A documentary following child workers in Bolivia? A video report on water scarcity and the Colorado River? No, that’s not a list of the latest Pulitzer Prize nominees. These are all Belgian journalism projects that have raised more than 2,000 euros each on the crowd-funding website KissKissBankBank. These …”
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The Washington Post has developed a tool that tracks the speed of its breaking news email alerts in comparison to nine other competitors. The tool, called BreakFast, has allowed the Post to streamline its own breaking news protocols and is part of its CMS.

"Experts are evenly split on whether the coming decade will see a reduction in false and misleading narratives online. Those forecasting improvement place their hopes in technological fixes and in societal solutions. Others think the dark side of human nature is aided more than stifled by technology."

“ Journalism case studies that apply design thinking Poynter.org Design thinking has become a popular method among journalists who are interested in boosting creativity and better engaging their audiences.”
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“ Even with publishers grousing about Facebook's shortcomings as a source of revenue and organic traffic, publishers are putting a lot more resources into dark posts, according to Keywee data.”
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Hearken is developing a new tool for pre-publication audience engagement. A few partner newsrooms are already testing it out. Hearken’s Julia Haslanger recently spoke at MisInfoCon about Open…
Via Andy Bull

Have you seen the “Disputed News” flag on Facebook articles yet? If not, you will soon. It hasn’t rolled out to everyone yet, but Facebook now has a way for you to report Fake News. News stories that…
Via Andy Bull

'Anybody can do data journalism,' said Bahareh Heravi from the National University of Ireland during the workshop 'Tips and tricks for data-driven journalism starters' at the International Journalism Festival on 7 April, 2016.

Martin Bryant: "While audiences around the world know the UK’s BBC best for its hit TV shows like Top Gear and Doctor Who, it has been a key force in technological advances since since it first started broadcasting almost a century ago" ....

Martin Bryant: "While audiences around the world know the UK’s BBC best for its hit TV shows like Top Gear and Doctor Who, it has been a key force in technological advances since since it first started broadcasting almost a century ago" ....

Martin Bryant: "While audiences around the world know the UK’s BBC best for its hit TV shows like Top Gear and Doctor Who, it has been a key force in technological advances since since it first started broadcasting almost a century ago" ....

Martin Bryant: "While audiences around the world know the UK’s BBC best for its hit TV shows like Top Gear and Doctor Who, it has been a key force in technological advances since since it first started broadcasting almost a century ago" ....

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